Sunday, February 7, 2010

In Which Jeremy Walks Without Crutches!

Here he is back on January 6th, for your comparison. It's been almost exactly a month since I took that video, and the difference is astonishing. He's been working extremely hard to rebuild muscle and improve his flexibility and balance; he's spending three to four hours at the gym six days out of the week and going to physical therapy three times a week on top of that.

He's still uses the wheelchair whenever we'll be out and about for more than half an hour or so, or when there's uneven terrain or bad weather, but I wouldn't be surprised if by next month he's out of the wheelchair entirely given the rate he's going!

Unbelievable! Amazing! I know just a tiny little bit about foot pain, having had surgery on my foot as a child (nothing in comparison to to the injury Jeremy had, of course), so I am speechless at the progress he made.

Congratulations!!!!! I can see where one foot is stiffer than the other -- that must be the one that is fused and can't move side to side. I'm sure it'll take a lot of work to figure out how to cope with that, but that's where the kinesiology background can really pay off. But except for that, there's an amazing fluidity to the movement -- such progress!

About The Author

I'm Connor's Mom. That pretty much explains everything. I mean, raising the epicenter of cuteness in the universe is tough, but it has its moments, all right.
I should probably mention that Connor has a submicroscopic, subtelomeric unbalanced translocation 46xy der t(1)(1;15)(q42;q26.2)-- an extremely rare chromosomal disorder. He keeps me on my toes!